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NIST Hones In On NatSec Quantum Research "[I]t's really a good time, and important, for the government to step in and help prime the pump," says Celia Merzbacher, deputy director of NIST's Quantum Economic Development Consortium.

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NSA Warns Companies China Is Exploiting 25 Unpatched Vulnerabilities The NSA cannot mandate patching on its own, but the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) allows the Pentagon to penalize companies in its supply chain that fail to adequately protect their networks.

Services' Fear Of Losing 'Control' Blocking JADC2 Progress, Experts Say "This is a fundamental roles and missions question, and DoD needs to clearly designate a lead service and compel the other services to follow that lead," says Todd Harrison, space and budget expert at the Center for Strategic and International Security.

The 5 Faces Of Chinese Espionage: The World's First 'Digital Authoritarian State' Chinese spies are different from those of most other wealthy and developed countries where the majority of spies are highly trained, with some serving under diplomatic cover and others operating under what the US Intelligence Community calls Non Official Cover (NOC). Chinese intelligence operations are the first in modern times to use, as a foundation,…

Network, GPS Will Be Jammed In Project Convergence 2021 In this fall's Project Convergence exercises, it took a heroic effort just to get the network to work at all. Next year, the Army wants the network to function in the face of electronic attack.

Air Force Chief Seeks Navy Chief's Cooperation On JADC2 "[T]here is a difference in how aggressively the Navy is pursuing JADC2 compared to the Army and Air Force," Bryan Clark, Navy expert at the Hudson Institute, says.

Microsoft Boosts Space Services, Partnerships SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell said SpaceX would, "where it makes sense," help Microsoft Azure Space sell its data services to current and future customers.

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